This is a weekly meme hosted by Wandering Words, where you give the first few lines of a book to hook your readers before introducing the book.

The Nazi officers are dressed in black. They look at death with the indifference of a gravedigger. In Auschwitz, human life has so little value that no one is shot anymore; a bullet is more valuable than a human being. In Auschwitz, there are communal chambers where they administer Zyklon gas. It’s cost effective, killing hundreds of people with just one tank. Death has become an industry that is profitable only if it’s done wholesale.